JXTA in a Nutshell

Name

search — Discovers JXTA advertisements

Synopsis

search [-p peerid 
                  name 
                  attribute] | [-n n] | [-r] | [-a] | [-v] | [-f]

Description

Use the search command to search for advertisements within a peergroup or at a specified peer location. Running this command with no options lists only the advertisements already known (cached) by the peer. The -r option is used to send a propagate request to find new advertisements.

The search command stores results in the local cache and inserts advertisements into the environment using the name adv X, in which X is a growing integer number.

Options

-p peerid

Searches for advertisements at a given peer location

-r

Searches for advertisements using remote propagation

-a

Limits the search to advertisements containing an attribute with the given name

-v

Limits discovery to advertisements containing an attribute with the given value (in conjunction with the name specified with the -a argument)

-n

Limit the number of responses from a single peer to n

-f

Flushes the local cache of advertisements

Example

JXTA>search -r

Searches for new advertisements by propagating a request throughout the current peergroup.

See Also

whoami , chpgrp , join , groups